Hi,

How can I use slackrepo with customized SlackBuild?
What I mean is, I want to modify some SlackBuild from SlackBuilds.org, either for my own purposes or for the purpose of upstreaming.

I could probably setup my own git repo with the customized version, but what about the dependencies?

And I don't mean changes that can be accomplished with hinfile, what I need is direct modification of SlackBuild's text.

I know about the location where slackrepo stores the upstream SlackBuilds.
Is it fine to modify the SlackBuild there?
Won't I run into some dirty/uncommitted changes problems?

Another thing. Is it somehow possible to override the .info's REQUIRES with hintfile?
What I need to do is to remove some dependencies, which are not required if appropriate flag is passed to the SlackBuild.

Thanks!

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Andrzej Telszewski

The dependencies would have to be installed manually and in order <or> you could use sbopkg.
Sorry I'm not good with install scripts.

SlackBuild scripts are written and maintained by developers so anytime that you change what they have built the potential for running into problems could very well end up being the case.

I've never modified a SlackBuild maybe other members that have will know and be able to advise you.
Lets see what others have to say about this.

http://www.slackwiki.com/Writing_A_SlackBuild_Script
http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:slackbuild_scripts

Hi,

@Ztcoracat Thanks for the help. Sorry I wasn't explicit enough, I mean the slackrepo application.
I'm actually maintaining some SlackBuilds at SlackBuilds.org, so I know the subject ;-)

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Andrzej Telszewski

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The whole idea is that it builds from the git repo - so you'd set up a branch in the git repo, based off the 14.2 branch, with your local changes in your local branch. You would need to merge the public updates from SBo from time to time, probably with git rebase.

It's exactly the same workflow that you would follow to create and submit changes to SBo, except simply that you don't push your changes to SBo.

It's not currently possible to override REQUIRES in a hintfile. This might be a useful feature to add (specifically for use with -current) but it might be a while before I have the time to do that. Until then, I'd say that if an SBo SlackBuild has an option that removes a dep listed in REQUIRES, the maintainer maybe should think about changing the defaults and remove it from the .info.

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Hi,

And for example to override jdk with openjdk.

It was me ;-) I introduced the option sometime later and I didn't want to break the current users. This might change :-^


BTW, slackrepo is really nice. One day, when I start rolling my own tool, it'll be certainly based on yours ;-)

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Andrzej Telszewski